The Unravelling of a Republic

How Pakistan’s Predatory Elites Murdered the Economy and Shredded the Constitution

Pakistan’s economy today resembles a system in advanced decay: the growth engine has stalled, the state’s financial plumbing is corroded, and the labor market is absorbing the social and political shock of what can reasonably be called the slow death of the post‑independence economic model. This is not a single‑year crisis but the cumulative result of d…